Congratulations to Laurent on his fantastic presentation at the @UclaMcdb Retreat! Great job!

Some of my most frustrating interactions on grad admissions committees have involved fighting comments to the effect of "this person is not a fully formed scientist, doesn't fully understand the critical qs in their field and has not acquired all of the skills to answer those qs"

Congratulations to our amazing undergraduate student, Cecilia Lei, on her acceptance into the University of Tokyo Summer Research Program! Woot woot 🎉

Congratulations to our previous undergraduate intern, Emanuel Garza, on his acceptance to the University of Chicago ! Fantastic job Emanuel 🥳

Check out this shiny new shiny app Vishvak Subramanyam and Matvei Khoroshkin have put together... go check out your favorite RBPs!

Great job to our graduate researcher, Kaiser, for presenting at the MBI poster session !

Congratulations to Corin Ropp for joining a Biology MSc Program at ETH Zurich ! Great job Corin !!

Recent publication ! Hilary Coller, Mithun Mitra, and Michael Cheng Pan-cancer landscape of epigenetic factor expression predicts tumor outcome nature.com/articles/s4200… uclahealth.org/news/ai-model-…

A pan-cancer ML model from Coller Lab usesepifactor expression data for 5 cancer types & single-cell analysis of adult and pediatric tumors to reveal expression patterns associated with poor or worse outcomes are present in individual cells within tumors nature.com/articles/s4200…

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Cecilia, on her acceptance into the Eli Lilly internship program!!

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Maya Rhee-Pizano, on being accepted into the CARE Fellows Program!! Great job Maya!

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Namita, on her excellent presentation to the Biomedical Research Minor! Great job Namita !

Congratulations to our graduate student, Kaiser, on his amazing talk at the MCDB retreat. Woot woot 🎉

Our new review on "Transcription factor networks in cellular quiescence" is now published in Nature Cell Biology. Thanks to the reviewers and the editor for the great suggestions and comments. Read here: rdcu.be/d5JFq nature.com/articles/s4155…

In this review for our focus issue on patterns in molecular biology, Lu Lab_Columbia explores how metabolites and metabolic enzymes regulate chromatin and histone modification patterns, highlighting the crosstalk between the metabolome and the epigenome. cell.com/molecular-cell…

CTCF stall DNA 🧬 loop ➰ extrusion by cohesin - but exactly how it pulls this off is a 'mechanistic mystery' (to cite Anders Sejr Hansen , Nucleus, 2020). We just preprinted 📜 a new study bioRxiv that provides some answers to this enigma: tinyurl.com/3r2a4ux2

Kaiser is going to defend this doctoral thesis next week (Thursday, February 27th) at 9 AM in 158 Hershey Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Less than one month away from abstract submission deadline for the 2025 GRC/GRS Genome Architecture meeting at the beautiful beach in California. Don't miss it!

Join us for our next seminar with Dr. Hilary Coller of UCLA! ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=3bh0M9…

Dr. Hilary Coller (Coller Lab) discussed her latest research on how epigenetic patterns can predict cancer outcomes more accurately than traditional markers. Her pan-cancer model reveals targetable epifactors across five tumor types. Watch the talk here: bit.ly/4jEAMTU